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Open Badges

The Badging For Education's (BFE) Open Badges are based on the Open Badges Specification (JSON-LD context v2.0) of the Mozilla Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) and Open Badges Ecosystem. The Open Badges Specification is the universal standard for badge creation, issuing and storing. This makes them easily transferable to other companies or organizational platforms, as well as posting to social media such as Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter. For more information on OBI and Open Badges Ecosystem go to https://openbadges.org

Touchcast Open Badges

There are two levels for the Touchcast badge; Creator and Trainer. The Creator badge is used to award teachers who have the skills required to use Touchcast in their classroom and the Trainer badge is for the teacher with the skills necessary to train others in using it.

Earn 2 Learn

This is an Earn 2 Learn badge. Earn 2 Learn badges are designed to allow learners to earn the badge while learning a new resource or skill. Each set of requirements include links to quality, carefully chosen tutorials so earners learn while they work through the badge requirements. It's a self-paced course with a badge awarded at the end! Already know how to use a resource? Then, just skip the tutorials.

Your Purchase

Your purchase is a PowerPoint file that contains a link to a Google Doc that has the requirements for that badge. Within the PowerPoint are slides with different badge designs for you to chose from that allow you to customize the badges by changing text, color etc. PowerPoint was chosen over more robust graphic editors because it is usually provided free to teachers by most school districts, most teachers are already familiar with it and it is easy to learn how to use as a graphic editor (no steep learning curve such as with Photoshop). Using our graphics, list of requirements and an Open Badges platform for creating, issuing and storing such as Badge Craft, you have everything you need to begin using Open Badges with your school or organization.

Badging Platforms

If you use the free Badge Craft platform (www.badgecraft.eu) to create and issue badges then we give you the rights to copy the badge under their "Import Editable Copies of Badges" feature. Just email us that you are using Badge Craft and that you want the rights to copy the badges you purchased from us. Then you only need to make minor changes. For instructions on using Badge Craft that also includes how to copy our badges, go to bit.ly/badgecraft. There are a number of good, free badging platforms you can use such as Badge List, Credly, Red Critter, For All Rubrics etc. Badge List was our number two choice. For instructions in creating your badge with Badge List using our products, go to bit.ly/badgelisthowto.

The purchaser can edit the MS PowerPoint badge image (graphic) that comes with their purchase to suit their needs. Once they have the badge image they want, they upload it to the platform they are using and then add the individual requirements. For Badge List and other platforms, you won't be able to just copy ours. Instead you will assemble the badges by uploading our image and then copying and pasting each requirement from the Requirements Doc. Badges have between 5 and 15 requirements. If you are using Badge Craft, you only need to upload your customized image and then copy our badge from the badge library. You may or may not want to make some minor edits. If you're new to badging and/or your school or organization isn't already using a badging platform (some LMSs have them built in), then we suggest that you use Badge Craft and copy our badges.

Our Services

If you would like us to customize a badge image for you we can for $1 a badge with a one time set up fee of $15 per organization logo/theme. We also provide a badging management service where we completely manage a badging program for you. Let us do all the work! From creating the badge, verifying earners evidence, issuing the badge and creating reports for you. Our management service pricing is based on the number of earners in your organization. Go to bit.ly/BFEservice for our pricing sheet.
Our Store

To see other badges that we offer, go to bit.ly/BFEstore. Check back often as we are adding badges regularly. Let us know what badges you would like us to add and we will move those to the top of our "To Do' list.

Not familiar with Open Badges or just want more information? Go to our Open Badges Overview page at bit.ly/openbadgesoverview (case sensitive).